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cowloom OP wrote

Reply to comment by twovests in anyone else sad that Discord has largely replaced IRC by cowloom

What don't you like about Matrix? I've only used it a little, but I didn't have any issues with it.

I'll take the clunkiness of IRC over having my data sold any day

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twovests wrote

The onboarding is confusing and alienating to me, and while I'm someone with a high tolerance for that, it makes it hard to recommend it to other folks.

Then there's the performance of the element client. It drains battery and uses a lot of CPU on every device I use it on.

And despite being "e2ee", I only use it for public channels, which make the hurdles of e2ee meaningless (even if channels I were on didn't all have bridges to discords and/or ircs).

I still don't have a mental model for how to do identity/key management with it. Every time I use it, I just make a new account. I understand why keys can't be tied to a username/password, but I would want to at least be able to maintain a consistent identity without having to think about it.

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twovests wrote

I want to add that I don't mean to be a hater-- A Discord alternative is a LOT of work, especially adding E2EE, which is an important thing. They made a modular ecosystem that is working pretty well. There's a lot I like about it! But this comment was only to address the negatives haha

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